Stanley Jackson

Stanley Jackson (21 November 1870-9 March 1947) was the Chairman of the UK Conservative Party from 1923 to 1926 and Governor of the Bengal Presidency from 1927 to 1932, succeeding Victor Bulwer-Lytton and preceding John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley.

Biography
Stanley Jackson was born in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, England on 21 November 1870, and he served in the British Army during the Second Boer War before becoming a renowned cricketer. In 1914, he was transferred home as a Lieutenant-Colonel, and he was elected to Parliament from Howdenshire as a UK Conservative Party member in 1915. From 1922 to 1923, he served as Financial Secretary to the War Office and then as Chairman of the UK Conservative Party from 1923 to 1926, when he decided to accept an appointment as Governor of the Bengal Presidency in the British Raj, thousands of miles away in India. Jackson believed that, in his own words, "In India, one rules firmly, or not at all," and he did not shirk at the use of force to put down dissent. After the 1930 Chittagong armory raid, he instructed Magistrate Barry Wilkinson to send in the police to massacre the young Anushilan Samiti student supporters, and he was nearly assassinated by a young female Anushilan Samiti student in 1932. He left office that year and died of complications following a road accident in 1947.